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Show 8,000 Quit Homes to Make Room for Mill Evacuate Half of Toun for Defense Plant. HOMESTEAD, PA. A mass evacuation movement involving almost al-most half the population of this industrial in-dustrial community of 19.000, is under un-der way to make room for a huge 575,000,000 extension of the local mills of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel corporation, made necessary by expanding ex-panding defense requirements. An estimated 8,000 people, now living in the area that will be razed to build the steel plant addition must find new homes in the near future, when the 1,363 buildings in the affected af-fected section will be torn down. The extension was approved by Director William S. Knudsen of the Office of Production Management It will be built in response to navy department requests for construction construc-tion of an armor forging and machine ma-chine plant, a new open hearth plant and a new slabbing and wide plate mill, for which the property must be purchased and railroad tracks ' relocated. Almost a complete community in itself, the area to be razed includes the following buildings, aside from private dwellings. Eleven churches, two convents, five schools, five clubs, 68 groceries. 46 shops, 28 saloons, three garages, two drugstores, two service stations, two cleaning establishments, two junkyards, a planing mill, waterworks, water-works, knife factory, machine shop and a baking company. Many of the 2,000 families that are being forced from the district include in-clude employees of the Carnegie-Illinois Carnegie-Illinois mills. They must all find new living quarters despite a housing hous-ing shortage and despite the fact that many have lived in the affected area almost all their lives. |